| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'R.U.R' (Rossum's Universal Robots), adapted from the original of Karel Capek; translated by Paul Selver; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre
Performed at The St Martins Theatre, London, 24 Apr 1923, closing performance (126th) 11 Aug 1923; presented by Reandean by arrangement with the directors of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith; produced by Basil Dean; scenery and costumes by George W. Harris
Revived at: The Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, London, Nov 1932; produced by Andre van Gyseghem and Bagnall Harris
On tour: 1923: [The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith]
France: The Theatre Comedie de Champs Elysees, Paris, 1924
America: The Garrick Theatre, New York, 9 Oct 1922; presented by the Theatre Guild Acting Company
The Martin Beck Theatre, New York, 17 Feb [1930]; presented by the Theatre Guild Acting Company; directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Casts: Basil Rathbone, Beatrix Thomson, Gilbert Ritchie, Frances Carson, Charles V. France, Brember Wills, Clifford Mollison, Ada King, Leslie Banks, Olga Lindo, Ian Hunter, Austin Trevor, Charles Cornock, George Cowley, John F. Barham, Cyril McLaglan, Leslie Perrins, Roy Leaker, Hugh Sinclair, Geoffrey Dunlop, Cresswell Garth, Alan Howland, High Williams, Ernest Digges, Frederick Fenton, Malcolm Keenand, Mary Pilgrim, Thea Holme, Stanley Lathbury, Boris Ranevsky, Percy Marmont, Frederick Piper, John Boxer, Clare Harris, Sylvia Field, Earle Larimore, Basil Sydney, Henry Travers, Harry Mestayer, William Devereaux, Sydney Greenstreet, Louis Calvert, Cyril Hardingham, Dorothy Hope, Cecil Townsend, Nell Carter, Ernest G. Cove, Frank Adair, Frederick Annerley, Eve McCarthy, May Ward, Alan Cotter, Jean de Casalis |